by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 7,984 people earned their degree in other health professions, making the major the 102nd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, other health professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $45,061 and had an average of $24,616 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 927 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,813 and $28,818 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 other health professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other health professions. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in other health professions.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the New England Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree health professions students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Bridgeport. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the New England Region. This small school is located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and it awarded 13 doctorate’s health professions degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Other Health Professions at University of Bridgeport
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Health Professions Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Dartmouth College landed the #2 spot on the list. Hanover, New Hampshire is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s health professions degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Other Health Professions at Dartmouth College
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